After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

This database documents the U.S. government's official experiment with torture. At present, the database contains well over 100,000 pages of government documents obtained primarily through Freedom of Information Act litigation and requests filed by the ACLU, and through litigation of Salim v. Mitchell, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of the survivors and the family of a dead victim of the CIA torture program. To learn more about the database, please read the About and Search Help pages. If you're a developer, you can also access this data through our API.

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Partially redacted CIA memo describing a meeting held to discuss the autopsy of Iraqi detainee Manadel al-Jamadi. The document notes that al-Jamadi's right eye was blackened, that there were bruises over both of his temporal regions, that there ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Physical assault, General
Army Presentation summarizing the current situation in Al Qaim Husaybah, Iraq in November 2003. The presentation includes a HUMINT summary and threat assessment describing a planned attack on coalition forces by an unnamed anti-coalition group, ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Non-legal Memo
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
EIT, Stress positions
Summarizes allegations against an Army officer accused of assault and threatening to kill Iraqi detainee. Describes investigation and military justice process.
May 16, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez, Raymond T. Odierno
Coalition Provisional Authority Forces Apprehension Form is a form that officials complete after the apprehension of a detainee. Form fields include, detainee name, location, time of incident, etc.
The sworn statements of a Sergeant First Class and a Captain discussing the capture of four Iraqi targets. At least one target shot at the U.S. soldiers when the soldiers raided their home.
Coalition Provisional Authority Forces Apprehension Form is a standard form that officials complete after the apprehension of a detainee. Form fields include, detainee name, location, time of incident, etc.
The sworn statements of a Sergeant First Class and a Captain discussing the capture of four Iraqi targets. At least one target shot at the U.S. soldiers when the soldiers raided their home.
MSG Girman is accused of willfully failing to safeguard from assault or abuse captured Iraqi prisoners of war; kicking a detainee in the groin, abdomen and head; kicking, punching and dragging a detainee by the armpits; kicking a detainee in the ...
Lists all relevant dates of the charges and Court Martial against SSG Scott McKenzie
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Scott A. McKenzie
This is the Court Martial record of Specialist Timothy F. Canjar. It includes the charges against Spc. Canjar and his plea(s) as well as. Spc. Canjar was charged with: 1) dereliction of duty; 2) maltreatment of detainees (4 counts); 3) intent to ...